Antiochus, who made his next 1 campaign against the Parthians, in a hunt and chase wandered away from his friends and servants, and unrecognized entered the hut of some poor people. At dinner he brought in the subject of the king, and heard that, in general, he was a decent man, but that he entrusted most matters to friends who were scurvy fellows, and overlooked and often disregarded matters that were imperative through being too fond of hunting. At the time he said nothing; but at daybreak some of his bodyguards arrived at the hut, and his identity was disclosed when the purple and the crown were brought to him. ‘Howbeit,’ said he, ‘since the day when I donned you, yesterday was the first time that I heard true words about myself.’
1 The first campaign was against Jerusalem in 133 B.C.